Tales of Arcania

Chapter 2: Still alive

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Retro wakes up to Varo over him, prodding around inside him. Varo looks up from his work to see Retro watching the operation. He searches briefly for something, and smiles when he finds another syringe. He quickly injects the serum and puts an odd mask on Retro's face. Retro becomes unconcious once again.

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I woke up to Varo writing on a clip board... Probably notes on how fine I am.

"They are not that child" answering me as if he had read my mind.

I say "Good morning doctor" trying to get his attention. He didnt seem to care and started listing facts and other stuff I didnt quite understand. Maybe you'll understand it better you fine listener, you.

"Firstly, I took away the power of the universe from you. Once you learn the right spell, you will be able to have the power to go through space and time itself, like you could before. But that wont be for a very long time."

I interrupted "I didn't know I could do either before" He looked me in the eyes without emotion, I assumed it was in anger though.

He continued "I've also taken the liberty of injecting you with the formula that takes away your repulsion field. Though anyone that had previously hated you will continue to do so, lest you somehow change their minds."

I interrupt again "Well you did your best doctor, even if it wasn't quite there." He looks at me with the same even look that I assume is anger and continues

"Thirdly, you work for me now. If you'll turn your attention towards the device around your neck" he says

"Oooo, what a dazzler." I say.

He responds to my comment with "That 'dazzling' device does many things, so pay attention."

"First, It will mark and remember the locations you visit around Arcania, and it will holographically display your map on command."

"Second, it is a journal, keeping track of any missions you've gained; Any factions you've interacted with, and how they view you; And it keeps track of your feats, and accomplishments."

"Third, it has a vital system scanning program, meaning it displays how healthy, how damaged, and how Stagnant you are."

"Fourth, it has a de-atomizer, instead of you having to carry all of the objects you find in your travels, you can simply break them down into molecules; Don't worry though, it will alphabetically organize these items and give them to you on command."

"Fifth, it can assist you in casting spells, as long as you take the time out of your life to learn how to program them in, i'm not going to bother telling you how. because it would be a waste of time, and your too stupid to understand."

"Sixth, It will digitally reconstruct your body to change you into a unicorn, Pegasus, or earth pony on command, to make up for taking your wings and horn away."

"I'm not an alicorn anymore?!" I interrupted again panicingly, noticing that my wings, and horn had been removed, making me a simple earth pony. He nodded and finished his explanation of this... thing.

"Seventh, it has an extremely advanced AI. It will teach you how to use the device, and will assist you with things you dont know."

"Finally, its very durable, I would suggest that you dont need chest armor while wearing it, as long as you keep its core safe.

"Any questions?" He asks as he finishes.

I answer him with "Four of them. Maintence, how do I take it off, what do I call it, and wheres my brother?"

He quickly answers, as if trying to get rid of me "Blaze left, already heading home. Heres the key to take it off, it is the only way to remove it. The only maintenence needed is to cool the core off every so often. No name yet, name it what you like."

I thank him and start to trot off when he stops me. "Report back tomorrow before noon to get your first assignment, and get some rest, you'll need it."

Something catches my eye as I exit through the door. Actually there were two things that caught my eye, One looked like it latched to the bottom of your hoof and went up the outter part of your leg. It had two tray-like things that fastened to your side, like a saddle. The saddle had some kind of plug-in cords on each side. The front of the saddle went up the neck and attached to earpieces. The second was simpler, it looked like it hooked to pegasus wings with buttons on the sides, and went to the earpiece and had trays like the other one.

"One more question, Varo. Those things on the wall, what are they?" I ask.

He answers with "They are light, battle assisting exoskeletons that hold ranged weapons. They are quite deadly. Now get out."

I wasted no more time to leave. I felt like if I had, he may have forced me out.

When I actually left the hole, I noticed that I had missed the better part of the day.

While I was walking home, I decided to change into a unicorn. I always did liked the horn the most, better than being an earth pony at least. Well that, and I needed to learn how to use the dazzler.

It wasn't that difficult to learn, and as I change I hear that same dick's voice from earlier shout "Hey freak!" just before I turned to see a brick coming towards me.

Easy catch, Ill just grab it with my magic and -Donk- ow ow ow. My blue levitation field tried to grab it but broke as it made contact with the brick.

"I'm gonna..." I look around to find that he had run off somewhere. "...go home".

As I walk home I think about why my levitation spell didnt work. Varo's words sparked in my mind and reminded me that he had taken my magic. But he just meant my super ultra mega death god magic... right? Dammit Varo. You got me hit with a brick!

I go to touch the wound to see if it still hurts, and as I do, I whimper from the unexpected amount of pain.

Shortly after, I hear a silky voice ask if i'm OK. I look around to find a purple coated mare troting up to me with a worried look on her face.

"I um, I'm fine. How about you?" I say with a smile.

"Oh how polite, even in pain you ask how a lady is doing." She says.

"Well its not really that bad." I respond. She raises an eyebrow and digs around in one of her saddle bags to pull out a mirror and show me. "Oh, I guess it is that bad." I say as I look at the gash barely above my eye, I think I was hit with a corner piece. ouch. "You dont happen to have anything to help would you?" I ask.

She nods and takes out some magically enchanted bandages, and happily starts covering the wound with them.

While shes working, my eyes start to wander to her flank, and I enjoy what I see. Thats a nice looking... blank flank? Oh Retro... Your attracted to a filly, thats just not right. But wait... shes larger than I am, she couldn't possibly be a filly. So maybe it is right? I turn my attention to her purple eyes, and her beautiful mane that seems to closely resemble a sunset at the base, leading to a clear night's sky as it nears the tip.

After admiring her beauty, I work up the courage to ask her name. In a tone that seemed to make everything feel better.

She stated "Equinox, the ancient of space and time. And what about you?"

Hohmigosh, hohmigosh, hohmigosh! I was talking to an ancient! Not just any ancient! The. Best. Ancient.

I answer her question with a fumbling voice. "M-my name? Oh I um... Im Retro, son of god... well goddess." "Good job Retro, Great first impression" Wait is she giggling? Why is she giggling?

Then I finally realized I had said that second part out loud.

"Oh, Retro. I remember you. Sorry I didnt recognize it was you sooner, Ive just been so busy since forming Arcania" She says with a slight smile.

I was about to apologize for not recognizing her as well when she interrupted me with "Would you please excuse me, like I said, I am very busy. Please be careful of your head, more than just you might need it 'son of goddess'." And with that, she smiled again, and then she galloped off.

I watched her until she was out of sight. But most deffinately not out of mind. Oh no, i'm definitely keeping the memory of that mare locked away for safe keeping.

When I walk into my house, Blaze looks over to me, alarmed about the bandages on my head.

I say "Don't worry about it." to him, but he still has the worried expression on his face.

I looked down to see his new 'Dazzler device' and I noticed that the only differences were that the metal his had been made from was gold, instead of my silver. And that his core was red, instead of my blue. I asked him what he thought of the device, when he commented how I assumed he would.

"This should be helpful for the kind of work we'll be doing soon, and it has this helpful assistant too."

He turns on the AI system and it shows the red hologram of a stallion in a... uh, why is a hologram wearing an aviator's outfit? Whats a hologram even need one of those for?

"Good evening master Blaze, what may I help you with?" the hologram says in a rather classy voice.

Blaze responds quickly "Nothing really, just showing you off Spender."

The hologram smiles "Thank you sir, good to know I'm the prized trophy of my master."

Blaze puts Spender away as he salutes. I comment on how cool it is, and try to activate my own hologram when my Dazzler device sparks, spudders, and pretty much shuts down.

"Um Blaze, what just happened?" I ask

He asks me if I let the core cool down first... I didn't.

"How long will I have to wait for it to re-boot?"

He thinks for a moment before answering "A few hours maybe?"

I let out a sigh of distaste and ask him if I have any chores before bed. He tells me not to worry about them, and that I should try to gets some rest so that the bandages will take full effect. I smile and thank him.

He stops me as I head for my room to tell me he loves me.

"I love me too Blaze." I say. He smiles and lets me continue into my room, where I proceed to collapse on my bed, and fall asleep quickly.

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